Zhao Jun
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Zhao Jun is a Chinese chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster. In 2004, he became China's 19th Grandmaster at the age of 17.

Zhao Jun plays for Shandong chess club
Chess club
A chess club is a club formed for the purpose of playing the board game of chess. Chess clubs provide for both informal games and timed games, often as part of an internal competition or in a league.-Organisation:...

 in the China Chess League
China Chess League
The China Chess League is a Chinese professional league for chess clubs. The league is organized by the Chinese Chess Association. It is sponsored by Youngor Group and was sponsored by the Shandong and it has been able to determine the league's sponsorship name. Seasons usually run from April...

 (CCL). He is ranked 11th in China http://blog.sina.com.cn/chessnews.

He achieved his first GM norm at the February 2004 Aeroflot Open
Aeroflot Open
The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated...

 in Moscow where he scored 5/9 (tpr 2613). His second norm was achieved at the April 2004 China Men's Team Championship in Jinan where he scored 7/10 (tpr 2652). His third norm was achieved at the November 2004 World Junior Chess Championship
World Junior Chess Championship
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 in Cochin where he came third scoring 9.5/13 (tpr 2633).

Playing under the handle CK-324, he earned a spot in the 2006 FIDE Blitz Championship by winning a qualifying tournament on the ICC
Internet Chess Club
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.

He competed in the Chess World Cup 2007
Chess World Cup 2007
The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2009. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament, between 24 November and 16 December 2007, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....

 where he beat Pendyala Harikrishna
Pendyala Harikrishna
Pentala Harikrishna is a chess player from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Harikrishna became the youngest grandmaster from India in 2001. He is No. 3 in India after Viswanathan Anand & Krishnan Sasikiran, No. 9 in Asia & ranked 71st in the world as per FIDE rating as on November 2011.In November...

 in the first round and achieved a performance rating of 2668 despite losing to Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu is a Romanian chess grandmaster. His peak FIDE rating was 2707 in October 2005, when he was ranked fifteenth in the world, and the highest ranked Romanian player ever...

 in the second round.

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